Hippasa Explained

Hippasa is a genus of spiders in the wolf spider family Lycosidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-seven species:^[2]

Hippasa affinis Lessert, 1933 — Angola
Hippasa agelenoides (Simon, 1884) — Pakistan, India, Myanmar
Hippasa albopunctata Thorell, 1899 — Cameroon, Ivory Coast
Hippasa australis Lawrence, 1927 — Southern Africa
Hippasa bifasciata Buchar, 1997 — Bhutan
Hippasa brechti Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005 — Ivory Coast, Togo
Hippasa decemnotata Simon, 1910 — West Africa
Hippasa deserticola Simon, 1889 — Egypt, Middle East, Central Asia
Hippasa elienae Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005 — Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
Hippasa flavicoma Caporiacco, 1935 — Karakorum
Hippasa funerea Lessert, 1925 — Southern Africa
Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994 — India
Hippasa himalayensis Gravely, 1924 — India
Hippasa holmerae Thorell, 1895 — Asia
- Hippasa holmerae sundaica Thorell, 1895 — Singapore
Hippasa innesi Simon, 1889 — Egypt
Hippasa lamtoensis Dresco, 1981 — Ivory Coast
Hippasa lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 — China, Japan
Hippasa loundesi Gravely, 1924 — India
Hippasa lycosina Pocock, 1900 — India, China, Laos
Hippasa madraspatana Gravely, 1924 — India
Hippasa marginata Roewer, 1960 — Cameroon
Hippasa olivacea (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar, India
Hippasa pantherina Pocock, 1899 — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh
Hippasa partita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) — Africa
Hippasa simoni (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar
Hippasa valiveruensis Patel & Reddy, 1993 — India

Simon . Eugène . 1885 . Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre . Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France . 10 . 1–39, 461–462.
Web site: Gen. Hippasa Simon, 1885 . 26 January 2023 . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.